btw, if anyone has a better idea to spent $35 other than making it a
donation to wikipedia and
make your company do the matching gift thing. The hard
part is to change the culture of a company without going through a
bankruptcy court, IMHO.

I started Felix
Browder page on wikipedia. Recently discovered someone contributed a
picture of young Felix Browder. I was excited and spread the good news
to a family member. I wasn't expected to be told, '....oh, btw, that's
not Felix, that's Bill. Although the bits of information in the article
about Earl
Browder are generally correct, the emphasis is completely unbalanced
and sensational. Whatever spying he did was of little consequence
in the big picture....'.

My re-search on Felix Browder's photo archive led me to this
Arbitration Barnstar depiction. I thought that was fun...

Last night Sergey Magnitskiy, a 37-year old legal adviser and father of
two, died in Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in Moscow.

Since 2007, Sergey Magnitskiy was defending the Hermitage Fund and HSBC
against serious frauds perpetrated with the involvement of Russian
officials. Sergey Magnitskiy gave formal testimonies naming officers of
the Interior Ministry and their role in the seizure of Hermitage
Fund/HSBC companies. Shortly after his testimony, on 24 November 2008,
Sergey Magnitskiy was arrested by the team of the same Interior Ministry
officers named in his testimony."

William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital, grandson of Earl Browder,
general secretary of US communist party.

Have you read the novel 'Shibumi'? The Japanese general asked his
adopted son to kill him in the cell so that he won't go on trial as a
war criminal...

hmm...I don't know... Switching party may not be a wise thing to do even
for a
lofty mathematical framework to save the economy of the people. I have
read Earl Browder's book 'No way Out'. Its full of reason and logic,
definitely more persuasive than any of the speech George W. Bush made
during his presidency.

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